Honor Blackman - Biography Honor Blackman was born in Plaistow, Newham, London. For her sixteenth birthday her father offered her a choice: a bicycle or elocution classes. She chose the latter. Her elocution teacher was an inspirational woman who introduced her to a world of poetry and theatre previously unknown to her. In the process Honor discovered talents she didn't know she had. Her teacher advised Honor's father to enrol her in the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, which she duly attended part-time while working as an office clerk in the Home Office. It was suggested to Honor - upon her graduation - she should audition as an understudy in a West End play, The Guinea Pig. She did, and was successful in securing the job. Further good fortune came her way when the show's lead actress fell ill, Honor stepped in. Two more West End plays followed but as a princiapal.. Her first film appearance soon followed; a non-speaking part in Fame is the Spur, at Denham Studios, in which she was killed by a cavalryman— life almost imitating art alas, as she was nearly killed by the horse that stepped on her hair whilst she was on the ground.

Joining the Rank Organisation’s stable of talent at Pinewood, Honor appeared in a number of movies including Quartet and So Long at the Fair with Dirk Bogarde, next came the film of the sinking of the Titanic - A Night to Remember and a Norman Wisdom comedy The Square Peg. Television work soon followed and began to dominate her career with appearances in episodes of The Vise for the Danziger Brothers, Douglas Fairbanks Jr Presents, The New Adventures of Charlie Chan, African Patrol, The Invisible Man, The Pursuers, Kraft Mystery Theatre and The Saint, opposite Roger Moore, amongst them. Meanwhile in her personal life, Honor married Bill Sankey in 1946, but divorced eight years later. In 1961 she married actor Maurice Kaufmann and very soon after went to meet legendary producer Leonard White with a view to playing Cathy Gale in The Avengers. White was looking to replace to replace Ian Hendry, Patrick Macnee's original partner in The Avengers. Honor as Pussy Galore in the James Bond film Goldfinger Honor as Cathy Gale in The Avengers Cathy Gale was unlike any character on TV before.

She was smart, sexy, intelligent and could hold her own in any fight scenario (she even wrote a book on self defence as a result of the programme). In her leather clad outfit, she became a pin up for full blooded males all over the world and an inspiration to women striving for equality of the sexes. During the second season of the show, Honor released a record with Macnee, entitled Kinky Boots. It was a surprise hit, peaking at number 5 on re-release in 1990 - after being played incessantly by BBC Radio 1 breakfast show presenter Simon Mayo. After 43 episodes of The Avengers Honor decided to move on, and returned to movies with director Guy Hamilton casting her as Pussy Galore in the definitive Bond movie, Goldfinger (1964). Producer Albert R. Broccoli admitted Honor had been cast on the back of her success in The Avengers, despite the fact that the American audience had never even seen the programme. Broccoli said, "The Brits would love her because they knew her as Mrs. Gale, the Yanks would like her because she was so good, it was a perfect combination". Post-Bond, Honor continued to blend film, TV and stage work.

She next co-starred with Laurence Harvey in Life at the Top and Shalako in which she was partnered firstly with Jack Hawkins and then Stephen Boyd not Sean, sadly, he had Brigitte Bardot in her first film outside France. She also starred in an episode of Armchair Theatre. Alongside Richard Attenborough, she appeared in The Last Grenade and then signed up for a film version of DH Lawrence’s The Virgin and the Gypsy. In 1971, Honor and Maurice Kaufmann both appeared in horror movie Fright. The couple divorced in 1975, but remained firm friends. They had two children together, Lottie and Barnarby. Honor as Laura West in the long running ITV sitcom - The Upper Hand Bringing some glamour to the cobbles - Honor as Rula Romanoff in Coronation Street Further credits include Columbo, To The Devil A Daughter, Robin’s Nest, Crown Court, The Cat and The Canary, Never The Twain, Lace, Minder, and Dr Who.

In 1990 Honor was cast in ITV’s new sitcom, The Upper Hand and won over a whole new generation of fans as Laura West; clocking up 94 episodes in six years! Into the new millennium Honor remained as busy as ever. Appearances in Bridget Jones’s Diary, and popular TV shows Dr Terribles House Of Horror, New Tricks, Midsommer Murders, The Royal and Coronation Street added to her formidable CV. From 2005 to 2006 she opened Cameron Macintosh's My Fair Lady in Manchester and Birmingham and has performed four one-woman shows nationwide, the present one being Word Of Honor. She appeared in the wonderful black comedy film, Colour Me Kubrick with John Malkovich in 2005 and in April 2007 she took over the role of Fraulein Schneider from actress Sheila Hancock, in Cabaret at the Lyric Theatre in London's West End. She left the show at the end of September 2007. Outside of acting, Honor is involved with an organization called Fairtrade, which aims to ensure that third world producers get treated fairly and can make a living from their work.

She is a signed supporter of Republic, The Campaign for an Elected Head of State, the UK campaign to replace the monarchy with a republic. She is also a passionate supporter of the work that Liberty does. Meanwhile, her career continues and Honor is still in huge demand with theatre, voice over and acting work – watch out for an upcoming appearance in Hotel Babylon. Goldfinger (1964) - IMDb IMDb There was an error trying to load your rating for this title. Some parts of this page won't work property. Please reload or try later. X Beta I'm Watching This! Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Error Investigating a gold magnate's smuggling, James Bond uncovers a plot to contaminate the Fort Knox gold reserve. Director: From $10.99 (SD) on Amazon Video ON DISC Famous Directors: From Sundance to Prominence From Christopher Nolan to Quentin Tarantino and every Coen brother in between, many of today's most popular directors got their start at the Sundance Film Festival . Here's a list of some of the biggest names to go from Sundance to Hollywood prominence.

a list of 22 titles created 11 May 2012 a list of 28 titles created 10 Aug 2014 a list of 30 titles created 20 Dec 2015 a list of 24 titles created 2 months ago a list of 24 titles created 1 month ago Search for " Goldfinger " on Amazon.com Connect with IMDb Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Use the HTML below. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Won 1 Oscar. Another 3 wins & 6 nominations. See more awards » Videos James Bond willingly falls into an assassination ploy involving a naive Russian beauty in order to retrieve a Soviet encryption device that was stolen by SPECTRE. Director: Terence Young A resourceful British government agent seeks answers in a case involving the disappearance of a colleague and the disruption of the American space program. Director: Terence Young James Bond heads to The Bahamas to recover two nuclear warheads stolen by SPECTRE agent Emilio Largo in an international extortion scheme.

Director: Terence Young Agent 007 and the Japanese secret service ninja force must find and stop the true culprit of a series of spacejackings before nuclear war is provoked. Director: Lewis Gilbert A diamond smuggling investigation leads James Bond to Las Vegas, where he uncovers an evil plot involving a rich business tycoon. Director: Guy Hamilton 007 is sent to stop a diabolically brilliant heroin magnate armed with a complex organization and a reliable psychic tarot card reader. Director: Guy Hamilton James Bond woos a mob boss's daughter and goes undercover to uncover the true reason for Blofeld's allergy research in the Swiss Alps that involves beautiful women from around the world. Director: Peter R. Hunt James Bond is led to believe that he is targeted by the world's most expensive assassin while he attempts to recover sensitive solar cell technology that is being sold to the highest bidder. Director: Guy Hamilton James Bond investigates the hijacking of British and Russian submarines carrying nuclear warheads with the help of a KGB agent whose lover he killed. Director: Lewis Gilbert Agent 007 is assigned to hunt for a lost British encryption device and prevent it from falling into enemy hands.

Director: John Glen James Bond investigates the mid-air theft of a space shuttle and discovers a plot to commit global genocide. Director: Lewis Gilbert A fake Fabergé egg and a fellow agent's death lead James Bond to uncover an international jewel-smuggling operation, headed by the mysterious Octopussy, being used to disguise a nuclear attack on N.A.T.O. forces. Director: John Glen Edit Storyline Bond is back and his next mission takes him to Fort Knox, where Auric Goldfinger and his henchman are planning to raid Fort Knox and obliterate the world economy. To save the world once again, Bond will need to become friends with Goldfinger, dodge killer hats and avoid Goldfinger's personal pilot, the sexy Pussy Galore. She might not have feelings for Bond, but will 007 help her change her mind? Written by simon_hrdng Mixing business and girls! Mixing thrills and girls! Mixing danger and girls! See more » Genres: 9 January 1965 (USA) See more » Also Known As: 007 contra Goldfinger See more » Filming Locations: Did You Know?

Trivia Wanda Ventham put herself forward to be considered for the role of Jill Masterson. See more » Goofs Goldfinger's Lockheed Jetstar has "Auric Enterprises" written on the nose in the airport shots, but it's not on the model in the flight shots. (Lockheed had the company names put on the Jetstars during production to remind the workers of the importance of their clients.) See more » Quotes Sierra : Mr. Ramirez and his friends will be out of business. James Bond : At least they won't be using heroin flavored bananas to finance revolutions. THE END OF "GOLDFINGER" BUT JAMES BOND WILL BE BACK IN "THUNDERBALL" See more » Connections See more » Frequently Asked Questions (Toronto, Canada) – See all my reviews First of all, I must state for the record, Sean Connery is THE James Bond. Even though the first Bond film I ever saw was "For Your Eyes Only" with Roger Moore. I was very young and very much drawn in. I have seen every one of the Bond films and without a doubt, "Goldfinger" is the finest the 007 saga has to offer.

Before I had begun an appreciation of the Connery films, i.e. before I'd seen them, a good friend and cartooning mentor, Ross Paperman, sorted me out. He helped me see how Connery's Bond was suave and sophisticated but also demonstrated a quality the other Bonds do not portray: fear. Not a panicky soil-your-pants kind of fear, mind you. But Connery's Bond actually has a few anxious, sweat-soaked-brow moments. A perfect example is when Bond is strapped to a table as Goldfinger's captive with a laser beam primed to cut him in half. 007 has to think fast. "Do you expect me to talk?" "No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to die!" A famous scene and line from Bond's most enjoyable film. Perhaps what makes the earlier films more enjoyable is that they had fresh, innovative elements that have now become cliché and gimmicky. The new films are often stale and already covered ground and they don't even appear to be trying anymore. But it's more than that. Even watching "Goldfinger" today, having seen all the latest in special effects and technology that Hollywood has to offer, it still is riveting and thoroughly entertaining.

That is also without the added advantage of being overly nostalgic about "Goldfinger". How could I? I hadn't even been born when it first hit theaters, and it was far from my first 007 experience. The story, the characters and the fun of "Goldfinger" is timeless and if given a chance could probably rope in a whole new generation of fans. It just doesn't seem likely to happen. Much of the satire from the Austin Powers films is directly derived from the Connery films, especially "Goldfinger" and "Dr. No", proving their lasting effect on popular culture. As well, John Barry's scores from the Connery films are finding their way into the ears of a new generation through pop music as snippets from his soundtracks are sampled by such artists as Robbie Williams, Mono and Curve, to name a few. But if by some fluke you read this and you haven't seen "Goldfinger" yet, do yourself right and acquaint yourself with the real James Bond. You'll probably be hooked by the time you hear Shirley Bassey's voice in the famous opening theme. 93 of 116 people found this review helpful. Was this review helpful to you?

Yes Honor Blackman Honor Blackman Nationality: England Executive summary: Cathy Gale on The Avengers Honor Blackman was not the first actress to play a kick-ass chick on film or television, but she was the first to make beating up on men part of her screen persona, while remaining smart, sexy, and completely feminine. In her most famous roles, she played Dr Cathy Gale on TV's The Avengers, and battled and bedded Secret Agent 007 as Pussy Galore in Goldfinger. Blackman's father was a strict disciplinarian, but when she entered adolescence he insisted that she take self-defense classes, decades before girls routinely did such things. In her early teens, she volunteered as a motorcycle dispatch rider during World War II, rushing secretive packages across town while air raid sirens sounded. At 15, she was a standout in drama class at school, and for her birthday her father signed her up for elocution lessons to overcome the family's cockney accent. At 17, he angrily slapped her as punishment for wearing lipstick, and Blackman, by then a yellow belt in judo, hit her father back, with ferocity. She moved out later that night, but after tempers cooled father and daughter remained close.

He later talked her through a bout of insecurity, urging her to audition for her first professional play, The Guinea Pig. She was hired as understudy to the lead, and took the role to rave reviews when the star took ill. She was soon earning her living as a stage actress, and broke into film with a tiny role in Fame Is the Spur. Some of her best early notices came in 1948, for Quartet. For the next decade she worked steadily in film, but never found great fame. In the late 1950s, she was featured in two TV series. She co-starred in The Four Just Men, and after that series was cancelled she played probation officer Iris Cope on the cleverly-titled Probation Officer, but she left that drama after its first season. During her first marriage, she had an abortion, although doing so was illegal at the time. Newly divorced, she had a nervous breakdown, and was hospitalized for a month. Her bounce-back role came when she joined a British action-adventure series for its second season in 1962.

In its first year, The Avengers had starred Ian Hendry and Patrick Macnee , two men at work in a male-bonding "buddy concept". Julie Stevens had briefly played part-time spy Venus Smith, but her role consisted of little beyond screaming and waiting for John Steed (Macnee) to rescue her. As Cathy Gale, Blackman brought something wildly different -- a female character who could hold her own among the men. She was a doctor of philosophy and a judo expert who, instead of waiting to be rescued, often rescued Mr. Steed herself. With her self-defense training and personal gusto, coupled with the program's low budget, Blackman performed many of her own stunts, and once accidentally kicked a guest star -- a professional wrestler -- into brief unconsciousness. It was Macnee, she says, who suggested that Gale's character should wear leather, after several pairs of Blackman's traditional pants had ripped down the seams during fight sequences. The leather, wrapped around Blackman's performance, made The Avengers a hit.

Blackman became a star, profiled in articles with titles like "Sex Kitten in Black Boots", and hyped as "blowing out picture tubes all over England." To avoid being typecast, though, she left the show after only two seasons. She was replaced by the generally forgotten Elizabeth Shepherd as Emma Peel, but after only an episode and a half, Shepherd was fired and Diana Rigg became Mrs. Peel. Most Americans never saw Blackman's Cathy Gale, as The Avengers did not air on American TV until 1966, two years after her departure. But Rigg's Mrs. Peel, a pretty tough dame herself, was following a path that had been blazed by Blackman. After The Avengers, Blackman has said, tossing Sean Connery about the barn in their famous Goldfinger fight scene was "easy-peasy lemon-squeezy". She was 37 years old when she played Pussy Galore, making her the oldest Bond girl in all the 007 films.

In Fleming's novel Goldfinger, Ms Galore is clearly a lesbian, but to Blackman's amusement, the film's only allusion to her sexuality was when she slyly told Bond, "I'm immune to your charms." Beyond The Avengers and Goldfinger, Blackman has had a long career on stage and screen, but many of her film roles have been supporting parts. Her best films include the Titanic tale A Night to Remember, Jason and the Argonauts with effects by Ray Harryhausen , and Bridget Jones's Diary. Now a senior citizen, Blackman is still working as an actress, and still looks like she could outfight most men. After being asked her secrets of youth many, many times, she wrote a book in 1997, How to Look & Feel Half Your Age for the Rest of Your Life. She has long been involved with the Fairtrade Foundation, a British organization that offers a "Fairtrade" mark for products grown or manufactured in the third world, if the importers can certify that low-level foreign workers received reasonable wages and fair treatment. Husband: Bill Sankey (businessman, m. 1946, div.

1956) Husband: Maurice Kaufmann (actor, b. 1928, m. 1963, div. 1975, one daughter, one son) Daughter: Lottie (adopted, b. 1968) Son: Barnaby (adopted, b. 1969) Why Honor Blackman still packs a punch - Telegraph Film Why Honor Blackman still packs a punch Brigitte Bardot? A 'nightmare’. Modern sex scenes? 'Boring’. And as for Sean Connery…Honor Blackman may be the same age as the Queen, but the similarities end there Honour Blackman Photo: REX FEATURES Honour Blackman Photo: MATT ANKER Image 1 of 4 Sean Connery And Honor Blackman Pictured During Filming Of James Bond Film Goldfinger In March 1964. Photo: REX FEATURES By Nigel Farndale 7:00AM BST 27 Aug 2012 The decaf coffee that Honor Blackman orders when she arrives at the café near her home in Notting Hill is not, apparently, one of the secrets of her eternal youth, secrets that people always ask her about. “No,” she says.

“It’s just I don’t sleep properly at night if I have any caffeine at all during the day.” For the record, her tips are eating sensibly, cleansing your face, and daily exercise, in her case Pilates and sit-ups. But having plunged straight into her appearance, we may as well continue with it. Blackman is 86, the same age as the Queen, but my goodness she doesn’t look it. Her thick, shoulder-length hair is still set in the same way as it was when she became a screen icon as Pussy Galore in the 1964 Bond film Goldfinger, only now it is white not blonde. Apart from that, the clear skin, the icy blue eyes, the bone structure, all are pretty much the same. And what is remarkable when you look at photographs of her down the ages is that she has never really changed. There was never a moment when she disappeared and reappeared in a surgically enhanced state. Even her figure hasn’t altered much. The most weight she has gained since her teens is 2lb. Related Articles Kim Cattrall: "The saucy roles?

I just say no" 06 Aug 2012 Her fellow 86 year-olds must hate her, I say. “I don’t think in those terms,” she says with a short laugh. “I’m used to people saying 'I hope I look as good as you at your age’ and I don’t make any comment.” She leans forward and gives a sideways glance before adding mischievously. “Some people don’t have as good a start.” Yes, having the right genes must help, especially with skin. “My mother, bless her, I remember putting her in the shower when she was 91 – and she hated to be stripped off in front of anyone, almost worse when it was her children – and her skin, because she never sunbathed, was pure and white, and her face was pretty good, too.” I suppose a lot of Blackman’s generation, the first true sun worshippers, sunbathing in bikinis without sun cream for protection, have now paid the price. Brigitte Bardot, with whom she starred in the 1968 film Shalako, is an obvious example. “Isn’t it strange how people go?

She had – what is that word that people use these days? Drives me mad – issues. She had issues, by which is meant problems. Bardot seems to have done a volte-face from being a great sex symbol to someone who doesn’t care about her appearance, only her animals.” I’m sensing they didn’t get on. “Bardot didn’t really get to know anyone on the set because she was surrounded by people to look after her. She couldn’t be left alone, you see, because she had recently attempted suicide. I think she was frightened because it was her first film outside France. It was a nightmare really.” Like Bardot, Blackman was a pin up, especially after The Avengers in which, from 1962-64, she played the smart and sexy, leather-wearing, judo-throwing Cathy Gale. She was always being told she was beautiful, did she believe it? “Looking back, I suppose some of it must have been true. But I couldn’t relate to it at the time. I didn’t think it was true, brought up as I was.

British families then, in complete contrast with today, were always afraid that someone would be prideful and arrogant, so my mother made sure I kept my feet on the ground. I remember once as a 17 year-old I was all dolled up to go out and thought I looked rather splendid, for me, and I asked my mother, 'Do I look all right?’ and she said, 'You’ll pass in a crowd’. It hurt awfully. All these years later it still rankles, isn’t that pathetic?” On a hunch, I ask if her parents had a happy marriage. “I think they loved one another but he was such a disciplinarian and so demanding that there was a fair amount of fear in the house. He was a very randy individual. It didn’t matter what she was doing or how she felt, there was no foreplay. He didn’t even come down and help with the washing up and then say 'how about it?’” I ask if, after all the sexism and boorish behaviour she herself encountered in the Sixties, the feminism of the Seventies came as a relief to her? “I think I contributed some of it with The Avengers.

Because a lot of the fan mail I got was from women. It was enlightening. They liked the idea of a strong woman and then that character was followed by another strong woman, Pussy Galore.” Ah yes. That name. Not exactly a great leap forward for feminism, was it? “I know. The problems I had in America. They couldn’t even bring themselves to say it.” What about the Bond scene with the Queen in the Olympics opening ceremony? Did she approve? “Wasn’t that ridiculous? But everyone seemed to love it. The Queen did play ball, but she surely didn’t enjoy the opening ceremony. I do think you should look up when your team goes by. She was bored to tears by that point because there were no horses.” Again, I’m sensing she’s not a fan. “No, I’m a republican. I think the Queen has done her duty pretty well, but it has taken her a long time to be a human being, a mother. I have to say, I found it odd that she had to read her speech to her own son on his 60th birthday.

I know she has been trained not to make mistakes but surely you can talk to your son and make a mistake, if it’s someone you love. But she’s doing very well considering her age.” They are the same age! She laughs. “Yes, you needn’t have said that. I still do my job and I stand at bus stops and drive my own car and take the Tube. If I was taken to an engagement and my time was strictly limited to an hour and a half and anyone who was a nuisance was kept from me, I think I could manage life pretty well, too.” Well, she can’t be accused of hypocrisy, given that she declined a CBE. But what is her real problem with the monarchy? “It does seem to me, for a democracy, that it is absolutely weird that we have a privileged family as our representatives. Surely you should earn it, not inherit it through some extraordinary blood. Not very British that. The Americans think it’s wonderful, but they must also think we are all idiots.” She is keen to point out that she admires the Princess Royal.

And she does leaven her comments with this little aside: “My father always made me stand for the national anthem, perhaps that was why I rebelled!” The thing you notice about Blackman, after her appearance, is how refreshingly blunt she is. Feisty too. She doesn’t temper her opinions for the sake of propriety, and she is pleasingly unconcerned about promoting the film she has ostensibly come here today to promote. Indeed when I mention it she says: “Oh that, yes. I haven’t seen it.” It’s called Cockneys vs Zombies and it looks pretty funny, part of a new genre called zomedie, in which the traditional zombie horror movie is subverted (think Sean of the Dead). In this one it is old age (cockney) pensioners who do battle with the undead, and the running joke is that they both move at the same speed. There is one scene in which an aged Richard Briers uses his Zimmer frame to try and outrun an equally slow moving zombie.

Blackman – herself a genuine East Ender, by the way, though she doesn’t sound like one thanks to elocution lessons she had as a 16 year-old – says: “Oh yes, Richard was very funny. It was a good script but it’s the kind of film I never go to see because I’m horrified by these awful looking creatures. Was any of the language left in? Because there were so many fs and blinds.” It sure was. “Well my parents would have been horrified. I’m horrified. When I started in film there was no swearing. You couldn’t even say 'bloody’ when I started.” And don’t get her started on sex scenes. Oh, go on then. “It’s like sex scenes,” she says, “they were more powerful in the Sixties because they were all about suggestion. Now nothing is left to the imagination, everyone humps everyone else, all over the place. I find that boring, frankly.” The directors were all sexist in her day, women were treated as objects. Did she go along with it? “It was accepted.

You were expected to do 'wobble shots’ [where an actress jiggles her top half].” Her first husband was a businessman called Bill Sankey, who reminded her of her father. This was surprising given that her father, a First World War veteran and statistician for the Civil Service, would beat her with a leather strap when he was angry. “Bill was 13 years older than me and those were the days when your husband was always right. It took me a long time to realise I was more capable than some of the men I knew. It was maddening it took so long. We were supposed to emigrate to Canada where the plan was that I would ditch my whole career, but then I made a last film in Spain and I found it lovely being away on location, not haunted by his jealousy all the time.” Did she…? “I behaved like a very good wife all the time we were apart. I must have been mad. I posted money to Toronto to help him get established. It all disappeared.” Did he feel threatened by her having a successful career? “He loved the money I earned but he was jealous beyond belief. He was always looking for people to bash and it was dreadful.

I suppose when you see two actors snogging on stage or screen you think they must be enjoying it, and sometimes you do, but it’s just a job. Even if it could be quite a pleasurable job when it was Sean Connery.” Did she fancy him? A roll of the eyes. “Yeees.” There was a sexual frisson on the set? “Of course.” Did anything become of it? “No, because I was married. But it was very tempting. He was so sexy. I disapprove of him strongly now.” Why? “Because I don’t think you should accept a title from a country and then pay absolutely no tax towards it. He wants it both ways. I don’t think his principles are very high.” Blackman lives alone these days, but sees her two children (both adopted with her second husband, the late actor Maurice Kaufmann) and grandchildren regularly. She insists that she only takes work if it sounds interesting, but you suspect her still working has something to do with her Equitable Life pension, or rather her lack of one. The fund went bust in 2000 and Blackman has been campaigning for its members to be compensated ever since. She narrows her eyes jokily.

“I just want justice. I was sold mine when they knew they had no money. It was fraud. I have been able to work on in this profession after 60, but others weren’t able to, and they are left so bitter. It makes me so angry. The people in Equitable Life should be in prison.” I find myself reminded of Blackman’s reputation as a scrapper. She has, she says, “a terribly good uppercut. When I was 10 or 11 I knocked out two boys who were bullying my younger brother. I can’t stand bullies. My mother was horrified but they had to learn.” Does she still have a quick temper? “I don’t think so, but maybe I take after my father. It’s more that I just couldn’t bear seeing injustice. I once got out of my car to intervene in a fight between a couple of boys, because it was so unfair.” And she knocked out a couple of her fellow actors during her acting career, Tony Booth being one of them. “Yes, I left one dizzy for a few minutes after giving them a karate chop on the neck.

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--Raphael Shargel Special Features Honor Blackman | James Bond Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia Last: Goldfinger Honor Blackman (born 22 August 1925) is an English actress who played Bond girl Pussy Galore in Goldfinger . Previously she played Cathy Gale on The Avengers Contents [ show ] Early life Blackman was born in West Ham, London to a statistician father. She trained as an actress at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, after persuading her father that an appropriate birthday gift would be acting lessons. Films Blackman's films include: Quartet and So Long at the Fair with Dirk Bogarde, Life at the Top with Laurence Harvey, The Virgin and the Gypsy, Shalako with Sean Connery and Brigitte Bardot and Something Big with Dean Martin. She played the role of Hera in Jason and the Argonauts (1963). She also did an overdub for an actress in the same film providing the voice for the character of Medea. More recently, she had small roles in the films Bridget Jones Diary and Hot Gold. Theatre She spent most of 1987 at the Fortune Theatre.

From 2005 to 2006 she toured the country as Mrs Higgins in My Fair Lady. Her show Word Of Honor, premiered in October 2006. In April 2007 she took over the role of Fraulein Schneider from Olivier Award-winning actress Sheila Hancock, in Cabaret at the Lyric Theatre in London's West End. She left the show at the end of September 2007. Television In a 1965 episode of The Avengers, titled "Too Many Christmas Trees", John Steed received his Christmas cards, one of which was from Cathy. "A card from Mrs Gale!", Steed exclaims in delight. Then, reading the inscription, he says, in a puzzled voice, "Whatever can she be doing at Fort Knox...?". It was an inside joke, as Blackman was filming Goldfinger at the time. In 1986, she played the role of Professor Lasky in the Doctor Who serial The Trial of a Time Lord. From 1990 to 1995 she appeared as Laura West on The Upper Hand.

Blackman took a guest role on Midsomer Murders as ex-racing driver Isobel Hewitt in the episode A Talent for Life. She also, in September 2004, briefly joined the Coronation Street cast in a storyline about wife swapping. In 2007, she participated in the BBC TV project The Verdict, as one of 12 well known figures forming a jury to hear a fictional rape case. The series was designed to explore the jury system. She was sworn in as a juror under the name 'Honor Kaufmann'. Blackman was featured, alongside Chris Tarrant, in the show Lose A Million. Singing A song she recorded with Patrick Macnee during 1964, "Kinky Boots", was a surprise hit, peaking at #5, in 1990 after it was played incessantly by BBC Radio 1 breakfast show presenter Simon Mayo. After her appearance in Goldfinger, Blackman recorded a full album of songs entitled Everything I've Got.

Personal life She married twice: Bill Sankey (1946 – 1956) and the British actor Maurice Kaufmann (1963 – 1975), with whom she appeared in the film Fright (1971); they adopted two children, Barnaby and Lottie. She is a signed supporter of Republic, The Campaign for an Elected Head of State, the UK campaign to replace the monarchy with a republic. She declined a CBE honour in 2002. She has also been a prominent supporter of the Liberal Democrats.

Question: Which part did Honor Blackman play in the film Goldfinger?
Answer: Pussy Galore